peewee wrote:Sabre wrote:peewee wrote:Judge wrote:isnt it true that by bringing mascherano off, that left space for kaka to exploit, that led to inzaghi's second goal ??
yes judge that is the case, mash had the better of kaka all game, removing mash gave kaka more freedom, a substitution had to be made to bring on a forward (made too late in my opinion), i think it would have been better to remove alonso
I'm sure you would.
Under normal circunstances if you want to come back from a goal, Alonso would be the right player to remove. A bit like in the Chelsea home leg, in which we had to take some risk to come back from their goal, and once we scored, Alonso came in.
But bearing in mind that we were going to be outnumbered in midfield with the second striker in the pitch and that would mean risk, and bearing in mind that Mascherano had a yellow card, I can understand Rafa's decission.
And yes, Judge is right, when you take risks to draw a game, you expose your goal more, and we noticed that Mascherano wasn't on the pitch and we had another striker. But we had to do it.
the fact is we were losing and therfore had to take risks, what a strange comment to make, are you suggesting we should have just settled for losing 1-0?
I'm suggesting that when you believe in what you're doing you hardly make changes before min 65, until you really have fitness reasons to make substitutions or you want to look desperately for the draw.
In fact, Milan's favourite escenario is counter attack, and they showed it quickly.
Settling for a 1-0?
who would think that.
My one gripe would be that around the hour mark I would've really changed things up. Once the fella got booked who was marking Pennant I would've pulled the winger, moved Gerrard wide right and I think they'dve sh!te themselves. Then I'd have pulled Kuyt and brought Bellamy and Crouch on, and given Zenden the old shephards crook and given Kewell a go. Still, that's just me.
Just a bloody football supporter.
